CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 538

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

No.56.

Sir,

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are

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18 SEP 1911 August 16, 1911.

I have the honour to refer to Your Excellency's dea-

patch No.45 of the 5th instant on the subject of a pro-

posal to entrust the carriage of mail matter between

Hongkong and Canton to the Kowloon-Canton Railway, so soon

as it shall be open for through traffic, and asking whether

I see any objection to a possible delivery of the mails

to the Imperial Chinese Post Office.

In reply I have the honour to state that, insofar as

the mails for the non-Chinese mercantile community at

Canton are concerned, I would most strongly deprecate any

action of the nature inuicated, until the matter has been

His Excellency

Sir F.D.Lugard, G.C.M.G, C.B, D.S.O,

eto,

etc,

etc,

Governor of Hongkong.

discussed

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